Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

"John Levine" <[email protected]> 13 Jan 2014 21:30:15 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
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>For example, I get 2-3 phone calls a day maybe 5 days/week, sometimes
>it stops for a few days here and there, from something called "Credit
>Card Services" pitching some service to lower rates.

That sounds like "Rachel from Card Services", a well known complete
100% scam.  The FTC has whacked Rachel repeatedly, but the problem is
that there are a lot of different people doing the same scam, often
with the same recording.

> So forgive me if I get a bit skeptical when someone tells me how big
> email marketers et al will be careful to not actually ANNOY people and
> that's only the purview of criminal or near-criminal types.

Well, currently we're 1 for 1 with the annoying marketers being
criminals.  Got any other examples?

R's,
John

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